'Welcome to the Grand Ballroom of the Buckingham Hotel, a place of music and magic, of magnificence and splendour. Strung high with decorations for the Christmas festivities, today it is banked in a dozen miniature Norwegian firs, all of them bedecked in crystals and lights - while, gathered around its chequered dance floor, gather the great and good of London town. There is nowhere else, no other dazzling palace or mansion in Mayfair, that the finest members of Society would rather be.'